The most socially acceptable way to destroy your life:
Overthink everything.
Act on nothing.
Your mind calls it “figuring things out.”
Here are Eckhart Tolle’s 7 steps to break the loop: 👇
1. Recognize that there’s a voice in your head that never shuts up.
In The Power of Intention Part 2, thousands of people joined together with one shared purpose: to direct focused intention toward lowering violence and increasing unity in Washington, D.C.
This wasn't wishful thinking.
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When you enter flow, your brain actually shuts part of itself down.
Neuroscientists call this transient hypofrontality.
For a short period, the prefrontal cortex, the part of the brain responsible for self-criticism, doubt, and overthinking, goes quiet.
The voice in your head (inner critic) fades.
Your sense of time starts to dissolve.
Past failures and future anxieties lose their grip.
And attention collapses fully into the present moment.
This is why flow feels so good.
When those timelines disappear, the nervous system relaxes.
Stress drops. Focus sharpens.
And performance rises dramatically.
Flow clears the mental noise that keeps us from doing our best work.
Send this to someone who wants to learn more about Flow.
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Why deep focus is difficult to drop into and how to improve your ability to do it:
- The first 10-15 minutes of distraction-free work feel excruciating... If you push through, sustained focus becomes available for hours.
- Phones literally drain acetylcholine, the brain chemical that creates attentional focus.
- Changing your environment resets your focus, moving to a new cafe or seat can break a mental rut the same way interval training resets the body.
- Effortful cognition works on its own timeline: scheduling thinking-intensive work before downtime (a flight, a walk) lets ideas marinate without forcing them.
@JMGrohNeuro on @hubermanlab
We’re told to push harder and be more disciplined, but for many of us that doesn't always work.
James Clear, author of Atomic Habits, laid out a principle that most people overlook...
Instead of forcing discipline, he asks a better question:
What would the fun version of this habit look like?
Here’s why that simple shift might stop holding you back 👇🏾
In his most recent video blog, Dr Joe explains how to interrupt worst-case-scenario thinking and heal patterns of anxiety.
If you want something in your life to change, you have to change – by bringing your awareness back to the present moment.
Learn more: https://t.co/DNGO3wPNAI
THE SKIN CANCER LIE:
According to the man in this video, a 1988 Australian study found something explosive. Two groups of hairless mice were given the same calories and the same UV exposure. As he puts it, “the only difference was the type of fat they ate.”
He says the mice eating seed oils, the same oils in most processed foods, “started to develop skin tumors after UV exposure.” At the same time, “the mice eating saturated fat like butter were completely fine. Same UV light but no tumors.”
And when researchers switched the protected mice over to seed oils, he says “tumors started showing up.” His summary is blunt: “seed oils plus sun equals tumors.”